Improved clothes-drier



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nally, extend from 5mm gama @tine ANDRE-WJ. CHASE, OFBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 85,562, llated'Ja-:mu/ry 5, 1869.

IHPROYED CLOTHES-DRIER.

The Sehndle referred t in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To allpersons to 'lbhoh these presents mayfc'ome;

.Be it known that I, ANDREW J CHASE otBostim, in A' the county of Sniiolk, and Sltate'of Massachusettsiave inventedanewand useful Improvement in Clothes-Driers; and do hereby declare the same t'obe fully described iin the; following :Spetim-land .represented in the 'Micompanyingy drawings, ofwhinls., i

Figure lis a top, view, Fgure`2,-a front elevatihff Figure 3, a. sidefviewrand' Figure 4, afvertieal and longitudinal section `of it.

i'lhe Iobject =of my invention is to arrange in such. a

mainnerthe stay-lines of a clothes-drier, projecting'ti'om awindow,`I that such Vdrier cannot sway or swing in a horizontal direction; A,also,to provide a ready andeasy 'means o f straining such llines to any required degree -of tension. i

`In such drawings- A denotes a frame, composed of two horizontal bars,

'a a, and a connection-bar, b, the' latter-being arranged near the two-outer ends` of the said .bars a. a, and at righ'tanglestothem, and tenoned into orotherivise fixed l'XlVhen projected from a. wndowLti'ame, B, the frame A has each ofits-bars a a tenoned at its inner end 'intoa staple inserted in the .window-frame,

` there being two' ,ofsuch-staples'to the frame.

Two stays or 1i}1es,d d, crossing 011e an'otlerdiagofv the upper part of the window-naine -to the outer end or foot .ofthe frame A, and aidin supporting' the frame as projected'froml the window from its outside. p

Other stay-lines', e'e, are .tov extend iron the outer partofthe flame A, down to the window-frame, in i manner as shown in the drawings. The said 'lines may be adjustml to and maintained at any reqpired tension, by means of the sliding clamps h-,as sho'wn.

The frame A supportsa sliding rectangular flame, G; between whose two, opposite end-bars a series of cords or lines, f f j; is strung or arranged parallel to each other. v

At the middlerof the rear bar of the frame C, a pin, x, 'inserted in the window-frame, over the rear bar of the flame C, serves to hold thel rear part of the trame C down upon its supporting-fmrne, or prevent it from being' thrown up by the wind when the frame C is projected from the window, and supplied with articles of clothing suspended from its lines.-

. rIhe front end ofthe frame G will be kept down upon .the frameA by the stay-lines d ll.-

The franie .0, ou the window-sash being raised, may

. he drawn through thel window and into the apartment to whichisuch window may belong, and when it is in such a position, it may be supplied with the clothes to be dried, after which it, with them, may be slid out the window, and upolrthe frame A, andthe sash may be depressed. g

y is a pin, inserted in the stop-'bead 2 of the windowframe. `It answers to support the frame C, when drawn back b'eyon'dthe sash, and thus admits the-sash to be depressed or closedinpcool weather, while the frame may have clothes either applied to or removcdirom it; This clothes-drier will be found to be very convenient, as iti-may be easily set up to alwindoir.

l lnake no claim to the clothes-drier made as'represented in the United States patent No; 46,7 31; but

I do claim-J "The stay-lines (l Ll, e e, when iliade of one piece, and

crossing one another diagonally, and applied to the` clothes-drier, the whole being as and for the purpose substantially as described.

.l also ella-im, in combination with the stay-lines, when combined with a clothesalrier as explained, the slidingr clamps h, as and for the purpose set forth.

Witnesses:

' R. H. EDDY,

F. P. HALE, Jr.

ANDREW J. OHAS E. 

